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Prof Dr Tommaso Calarco is the Director of the Institute for Quantum Control at Forschungszentrum Jülich and a professor at the universities of Cologne and Bologna. In 2016, he authored the Quantum Manifesto, which served as the foundation for the European Commission’s Quantum Flagship initiative, aimed at solidifying Europe’s leadership in quantum technologies. He currently chairs one of the key bodies of the Flagship initiative, the Quantum Community Network (QCN). In 2020, alongside the QCN, he launched an initiative to create a consortium of European quantum industries, which was officially established in 2021 as the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC).